Hi! I have such a great story for you. My nails were done by my former Khmer student's mom. She told me the saddest stories from the Khmer Rouge. She is so excited for you to come home so she can make you Cambodian food.
Lexi, her America name, told me no one talks about it for fear they’ll be killed. I guess no one was allowed to tell their stories, so no one has. She told me her dad watched his first wife and two kids be murdered in front of him. They didn’t kill him bc he could repair radios and walkie-talkies. He remarried her mom in an arranged marriage and never talked about his first family or what happened to them. So sad!
I still want a video of you speaking Khmer.
hi mom. Wow i am way excited to meet her and speak khmer with her and eat her khmer food. she also needs to show me the places to buy all the khmer ingredients because i will make a lot of khmer food when i come home too. You can tell her all i really know how to make is cha and sngow so she can teach me everything else (especially khmer spring roll)! You also probably know more about the khmer rouge than i do becasue no one talks about it here. I occasionally contact a matyay (an old woman) who will tell some very vague stories but you dont get information out of them. we are currently vising a woman whos name is Om Tom and she shared that when she was 17 she got married and one night at 2 am some soldiers came and took her husband in the middle of the night and she never saw him again and then she kind of mumbled some things and the only other thing i could understand her say was that she had her hands behind her back and her head down and soldiers were screaming at her to walk quickly and then she kind of stopped talking. she also has a bad memory so it was really cool we got that out of her because no one talks about the khmer rouge ever. they call it Red Khmer or Puol Phot here. super sad.
Yay i am so excited!!!
There is an elder that is ending his mission with me that went to
heritage high school. His name is Eric Lancelot Orton (i know weird
name) but maybe you could find his family and meet up together at the
airport to pick us up or you definitely dont have to if you dont want
to. we split up from the whole group in california and ride back to
skyharbor together. also have you gotten my flight plans yet? We want to
go to each others homecoming talks. also he is not good looking at all
so dont worry hahaha.
I am so excited to see
you guys in less than two months!!!!! seriously so pumped i cvant even
handle it. sometimes i get way sad that i am leaving like the last few
emails i have sent you, but i lowke am way trunky now from conference.
it was SO GOOD. have you watched it?? please do. i wrote down about 10
talks that i felt like applied to you which means that almost the whole
conference applied to you. please
keep studying the talks all the time because they were straight from God
and i received so much personal revelation from it. IT WAS JUST THE
BEST MOM it makes me excited to go home and build up our family. how do
you think our family is going to respond to the family curriculum? i
told hannah that her and I should try to come home sundays as much as
possible to do the family teaching with you guys. No matter who doesnt
want to do it, we are going to do it;) I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!! have the best week and have fun with carson for his
birthday ;)
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